2011
February
- February 11-12: Tech@State: Open Source, Washington, DC
- http://techatstate-oss.eventbrite.com/ and http://tech.state.gov/events/techstate-open-source
- Relevant sessions include:
- Open Source vs Government Culture: Creating Change
- Open Architectures for Public Health
- What's the Status? Federal Open Source Acquisition and Policy
- Open Standards: Design by Committee?
- An Open Model for Social Change: Changing Philosophies About Development and Aid
March
- March 17-19: 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference, Washington, DC
- March 30 - April 1: Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford, UK
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- December 1-3: Impementer's Workshop, Eldoret Kenya
- http://reach.ampath.or.ke/
- Sessions include
- Introduction to medical informatics
- Introduction to OpenMRS
- OpenMRS installation
- OpenMRS Maintenance and Upgrade
- OpenMRS data Model
- Data collection tools (Forms design and usage)
- Reporting -Cohort builder and Data export
- December 13-16: ICTD 2010 - International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, London, UK
- http://www.ictd2010.org/
- Relevant paper presentations include:
- Open Data Kit: Tools to Build Information Services for Developing Regions, Yaw Anokwa
- ICTD Research by Africans: Origins, Interests, and Impact, Paul Plantinga
- A Study of Connectivity in Millennium Villages in Africa, Jyotsna Puri; Patricia Mechael
- Research and Reality: Using Mobile Messages to Promote Maternal Health in Rural India, Divya Ramachandran
- Poster presentations include:
- Assessing the scope for use of mobile based solution to improve maternal and child health in Bangladesh: A case study, Mafruha Alam
- Beyond being a Proxy User: A look at NGOs? Potential Role in ICT4D Deployment, Shikoh Gitau
- Using Mobile Phones and Open Source Tools to Empower Social Workers in Tanzania, Daniel Nuffer
- The Human Infrastructure of ICTD, Nithya Sambasivan
- Sessions include:
- Health promotion and well-being in mobile-centric environments
- Information as a global public good: enabling access to knowledge through open licenses
- Mapping out a research agenda for mHealth
- Open Development, Organiser: Laurent Elder (IDRC-CRDI)
- Randomised Control Trials: Innovations for Poverty Reduction
- Research Ethics in ICT4D
- Development Theory “Teach-In”
- Technology demos:
- OpenMRS in Rwanda (Hamish Fraser)
- Open Data Kit (~yanokwa)
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11th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, Conference Theme Partners for Development: ICT Actors and Actions, Kathmandu, Nepal, 22-25 May 2011, Submission Deadline 15th November 2010
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